Handbook of Behavior Modification with the Mentally Retarded

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Behavior Modification Research with the Mentally Retarded

   • Thomas L. Whitman, John W. Scibak

   Pages 1-28

3. Toilet Training for the Mentally Retarded

   • John R. McCartney, Jeffrey C. Holden

   Pages 29-60

4. Self-Injurious Behavior

   • Stephen R. Schroeder, Carolyn S. Schroeder, Johannes Rojahn, James A. Mulick

   Pages 61-115

5. Treating Self-Stimulatory Behavior

   • Floyd O’Brien

   Pages 117-150

6. Teaching Self-Help Skills to the Mentally Retarded

   • Luke S. Watson Jr., Randy Uzzell

   Pages 151-175

7. Reducing Aggressive Behavior of Mentally Retarded Persons

   • Alan C. Repp, Andrew R. Brulle

   Pages 177-210

8. Training Skills for Community Adjustment

   • Allen Marchetti, Johnny L. Matson

   Pages 211-246

9. Vocational and Social Work Behavior

   • Frank R. Rusch, Richard P. Schutz

   Pages 247-280

10. Language Acquisition

    • James F. McCoy, Joseph A. Buckhalt

    Pages 281-330

11. Academic Training

    • Paul Weisberg, Richard A. Packer, Roberta S. Weisberg

    Pages 331-411

12. Back Matter

    Pages 413-414

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Mental retardation has probably existed for as long as mankind has inhabited the earth. References to seemingly retarded persons appear in Greek and Roman literature. Examination of Egyptian mummies suggests that some may have suffered from diseases associated with mental retardation. Mohammed advocated feeding and housing those without reason. There is other evidence for favorable attitudes toward the retarded in early history, but attitudes var­ ied from age to age and from country to country. The concept of remediation did not emerge until the nineteenth century. Earlier, in 1798, ltard published an account of his attempt to train the "wild boy of Aveyron." A rash of efforts to habilitate retarded persons followed. Training schools were developed in Europe and the United States in the 1800s; however, these early schools did not fulfill their promise, and by the end of the nineteenth century large, inhumane warehouses for retarded persons existed. The notion of habilitation through training had largely been abandoned and was not to reappear until after World War II.

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• Europe
• Training
• World War I
• World War II
• management
• media
• mummies
• state

• Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA

  Johnny L. Matson

• Jemison Center, Partlow State School and Hospital, Tuscaloosa, USA

  John R. McCartney

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